COURT CASES

Jaipur: The judgment of a court in Jodhpur in a case of possession and use of illegal arms by Bollywood actor Salman Khan has been deferred.
Court to decide on applications filed by prosecution requesting examination of 9 witnesses of the case.
"The case relates to both possession and use of...

Mumbai: In a setback to actor Sanjay Dutt, the Maharashtra government has ordered an inquiry into grant of repeated furloughs to him, Minister of State for Home Ram Shinde in Mumbai on Friday.
Dutt was granted 14-day furlough earlier this week. He was released from Pune's Yerawada jail on Christmas eve.
Dutt...

Cairo: A group of leading Egyptian activists on trial for inciting violence during protests against former President Mohamed Morsi were acquitted on Sunday by a court in Cairo, state news agency MENA reported, days after M0rsi was ousted by the armed forces.
The eleven defendants including Alaa Abdel Fattah, Ahmed...

Srinagar/Mumbai: After the acquittal of the Lajpat Nagar blast accused after 16 years in jail, a debate is raging on over the credibility of the police investigation. The question is whether it is a case of innocents being incarcerated for decades or are criminals being set free due to a...

New Delhi: Criminal proceedings in heinous and serious criminal offences cannot be quashed by courts on the ground that the accused and the victim have compromised, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
"Heinous and serious offences of mental depravity or offences like murder, rape, dacoity, etc cannot be fittingly quashed even...

Chandigarh: Claiming that Sikhs are being shown in a bad light in the 'Son of Sardaar' trailer, the All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) has urged the clergy to take action against actorproducer Ajay Devgn.
In a letter to Akal Takht head Gurbachan Singh, AISSF president Karnail Singh demanded action against...

New Delhi: The lawyer of Luke Pomersbach, the Australian player of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), denied on Monday that the cricketer had confessed to the police of having inadvertently touched or molested US citizen Zohail Hameed. Counsel Neeraj Chaudhry told IANS that his client did not make any confession to...

London: The Force India Formula One team must pay legal costs of more than $1 million Dollars within two weeks after a copyright case involving rivals Caterham and the operators of an Italian wind tunnel, a judge ruled on Friday.
Court sources said Mr Justice Arnold awarded Mike Gascoyne, Caterham's chief...

Canberra: Former New Zealand allrounder Chris Cairns feels 'complete vindication' and is ready for a new role in cricket after winning a libel action against former Indian Premier League (IPL) boss Lalit Modi. In the first libel action heard in England against a post on Twitter, Cairns, 41, was last...

London: Scenes on the fifth day of Chris Cairns' libel action against the suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi turned ugly when an angry Cairns tried to confront Modi in the courtroom.
Hearing that the defence will not be calling Modi as a witness in the case, the New Zealander got agitated...

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan is planning to teach acting to people at a homeless shelter as part of her community service.
The Los Angeles Downtown Women's Center want Lohan to help them in their theatre workshops, reports a website.
A spokeswoman said they were "extremely interested in having Lindsay contribute her talents".
"Lohan...

Mumbai: A day after a court ordered the attachment of two properties of Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt over a financial row with producer Shakeel Noorani, the actor's lawyer on Wednesday claimed that he received extortion calls from the underworld in 2005 at Noorani's behest.
The film producer rubbished the allegation.
"Sanjay Dutt...

Chilton (United States): A man whose penis was glued to his stomach testified in the court on Tuesday that a motel tryst with a girlfriend involving a bondage fantasy turned painful and humiliating after his wife, a second girlfriend and another woman burst into the room and harassed him because...

New Delhi: A Bihar court on Wednesday began hearing a defamation case against the Indian cast of Oscarnominated film Slumdog Millionaire and music maestro A.R. Rahman for allegedly "abusing slum dwellers".
The court of the chief judicial magistrate here, after the day's hearing, slated the case for February 24, a court...

New Delhi: As per a CNNIBN exclusive information, the Congress is trying to bail out Mulayam Singh Yadav in the disproportionate assets case against him.
Two years ago the CBI wanted to lodge a corruption case against SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav.
A confidential CBI report is expected to be placed before...

New Delhi: Golden Globe award winning Slumdog Millionaire might be creating a lot of Oscar buzz, but back in India, the film is caught in controversies.
On Tuesday, the Andheri Sessions Court in Mumbai admitted a PIL by Andheri Corporator Nicolas Almeida which alleges that the film's title is...

Islamabad: The ruling Pakistan People's Party today sought to distance itself from an anticorruption watchdog's move to reopen graft cases against PMLN chief Nawaz Sharif, with a minister saying the proceedings were initiated by former President Pervez Musharraf.
The PMLN, which last week pulled out of the PPPled government...

Chennai: The Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed a writ petition filed by Tamil star Kushboo, seeking to quash 26 cases filed against her in various lower courts in Tamil Nadu.
Justice R Regupathy transferred all cases to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's court in Egmore and directed that the trial be...

Mumbai: The Queen of Indian soap operas, Ekta Kapoor, has been dragged to the court by an actor from her own camp.
Actor Pulkit Samrat, who played Lakshya in Balaji's longest running soap Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court against Balaji...

Resident Editor of MidDay, Vitusha Oberoi, spoke with CNNIBN from outside the Dlehi High Court on the line of defence that was taken in the court.
CNNIBN: What was the lawyers stand in the court?
Oberoi: The lawyer did not take any different stand than what we did in the last hearing....

New Delhi: In 2006, Delhi's sealing drive dominated the streets. And the man at the centre of all this was the Chief justice of India YK Sabharwal. He retired sevenmonths back but now is being accused of malpractices during the sealing campaign.
The Committee for Judicial accountability led by lawyers...

New Delhi: Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona failed to turn up in court for the sixth time to offer his response against charges of a driving accident.
Maradona was seen partying with Colombian singers Juanes and Carlos Vives in Colombia on Saturday, while he should have been in Argentina to face...

Buenos Aires: Fresh from a legal success in the extradition case against him, Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi now intends to sue unnamed Indian political leaders for carrying out 'political persecution' against him.
Living just outside the Argentinean capital after his arrest on February 6 in Iguazu International Airport in Misiones province,...

New Delhi: The Government on Wednesday floated a new idea in Rajya Sabha saying that court proceedings of important cases should be telecast live on television.
Home Minister Shivraj Patil said that the Government was considering the idea, but that they would need to consult a wider gambit of people including...

New Delhi: An astrologer in Tamil Nadu landed up in the court for allegedly predicting longlife for a dead man. Sivasamy, who makes astrological prediction, was summoned by a Madurai court, after it received a cheating complaint by one local Gopalakrishnan.
The ancient palm leave manuscripts (believed to be written by...

New Delhi: A consumer forum on Saturday held Nokia India Private Limited (NIPL) guilty of "unfair trade practice and deficiency in service".
The order came after Delhibased Sameer Sharma filed a complaint that the mobile phone manufacturer had replaced his original handset, which had battery problem, with an "old and refurbished"...

New Delhi: There has been a sharp rise in the number of court cases filed by Army personnel in various High Courts and the Supreme Court against various authorities.
The number stood at 8,000 as of this year, Defence Minister AK Antony told Lok Sabha in a in a written...